S$30.8m funding awarded to projects to improve living spaces
SINAGPORE – A project that uses sensors to support ageing-in-place and a project to develop a modelling tool for urban planning are among the 10 research projects that have been awarded a total of S$30.8 million in funding.
SINAGPORE – A project that uses sensors to support ageing-in-place and a project to develop a modelling tool for urban planning are among the 10 research projects that have been awarded a total of S$30.8 million in funding.
The funding comes under the Land and Liveability National Innovation Challenge (L2 NIC) First Call for Proposals
“The awarded projects presented opportunities to use technology to improve the living environment for Singaporeans, as well as pushed the frontier of possibilities for future space development and land optimisation,” said the Ministry of National Development and National Research Foundation in a joint statement today (Sept 3).
The L2 NIC First Call for Proposals was launched on Nov 14 last year to support research and development for innovative technological solutions in four key areas, namely, the creation of space, optimising the use of land, creating highly liveable residential towns and supporting Information and Communications Technologies and platforms.
Singapore Management University’s (SMU) iCity Lab’s project aims to create sensor-enabled homes in support of ageing-in-place. The sensors, installed in the homes of seniors, could help community volunteers better monitor and respond to the seniors’ calls for help in a timely manner.
The modelling tool for urban planners, to be developed by A*STAR’s Institute for High Performance Computing and Institute for Infocomm Research, will incorporate a range of environmental factors such as wind, thermal, solar irradiance and noise in the urban landscape.
This will enable urban planners to visualise the effects of their designs on different environmental parameters, optimising the planning and design of our living environment.
A project by Nanyang Technological University faculty members will seek to develop an integrated solution for ensuring structural fire safety and life safety of occupants in underground structures.
Professor Yong Kwet Yew, L2 NIC Scientific Lead, said: “The projects selected for the L2 NIC First Call for Proposals are of high research quality that has been reviewed by international and local experts and a Technical Evaluation Panel. I am delighted to see universities, research institutes, Government agencies and private sector companies working together to develop integrated and innovative urban solutions to make Singapore more liveable, resilient and sustainable.”
A total of 78 White Papers were received at the close of the Call for Proposals in January.